What technologies the Supreme Court may shield next

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The Supreme Court expanded privacy rights last month, finding police need a warrant for caches of historical cellphone location data. The ruling continued a sweep of recent decisions that also imposed warrant rules for GPS tracking and post-arrest cellphone searches.

Privacy advocates believe courts will continue expanding Fourth Amendment protections, looking favorably at analysis in Carpenter v. United States that sometimes sharing data with a company isn’t voluntary.

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